Essays on Event Management

Incident Response (IR) Revamp

Introduction Incident response (IR) refers to a structured approach that manages and addresses the impact of an attack or a security breach. The main aim of the IR is to reduce the overall damage caused by the security breach in a cost effective manner and minimize the time for restoration. The success of incident response (IR) depends on to a greater degree the personnel and team structure, tools and utilities, and proper procedures. The paper will develop main efforts to revamp incident response in an organization addressing the aforementioned processes in the organization to ensure appropriate technology, best practices, ...

1.0. Introduction Gone the days when merely price tag and quality were the main determinants of the buying decision for any consumer. Today’s consumer based on growing awareness is much more concerned about the ethical status of the tools and methods utilized to produce, handle, and deliver a product or service. This emerging category of judgmental customer has also influenced the theoretical background as well as several practical considerations in the domain of business. One of the most important contributions of this tendency is the emergence of ethical consumerism on part of customers and corporate social responsibility or ...

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to examine and evaluate the sustainable event management of the Montreux Jazz Company. Conversely, the paper aims at giving a prompt and deceive report on the corporate social responsibility in line with the Montreux Jazz Company. The analysis raise the relevant questions on whether the event examined and evaluated is viable and sustainable using the government policy and the existing theoretical concepts. Furthermore, the analysis is examined using deceive concept on the design and methodology so as to come up with a critical discourse in the line with sustainable event management. The selection ...

Introduction:

Event management applies the use of the skills of project management to create and develop both small and large scale events that include a great deal of planning and logistics such as ceremonies, conferences, weddings, formal and informal parties among others. The field involves identifying the target audience, coming up with concepts that are related to the event and relating the technical aspects of the event beforehand. Event management is merged to serve as the marketing tool for the event being organized. In this case, event organizers devise the best methods they can employ to reach the target audience ...

Analysis of Sustainability of Tomorrowland Event

Analysis of Sustainability of Tomorrowland Event

Introduction and Context

The focus of this report is about sustainable event management. It aims to look at a major event and the sustainability policy of that event. The report briefly analyses the policy versus its actual implementation in real-life. The report reviews the earlier literature about sustainable event management. It examines the various theories related to corporate social responsibility and ISO 20121, which is the international standard for sustainable event management. The report then relates the findings at the present event to the sustainability theory. The report then presents the conclusions.

Tomorrowland is an electronic ...

Introduction

Mega-Events such as the World Cups and Olympics are so huge that it requires almost creating a temporary city for the massive event, with power, toilets, waste, water, and transport, among a host of other things. Such an event is inherently environmentally unsustainable, as it produces masses of waste and consumes unnecessary resources. While having no event is the most environmentally friendly event, there are many reasons countries hold why mega-events. However, it is beyond a doubt that those conducting the event have a social and environmental responsibility to reduce their impacts. This is true for all events, whether ...

Completion Date

CONTENTS 1. Introduction..3 2. The Color Run: Event Management Profile4 3. The Color Run Lausanne: A Profile.5 4. The Color Run Lausanne: Sustainable Event Management Practice6 4.1. Stakeholder Analysis..7 4.2. Media Coverage..9 4.3. Community Implications10 5. Recommendations11 6. References.13

The Color Run Lausanne: Sustainable Event Management Report

1. INTRODUCTION Festivity has become an integral part of social life in 2000s. In addition to conventional celebratory events – e.g. Christmas, Halloween and home coming in U.S, for example – events organized around athletic, charity or awareness-raising themes have come to capture attention of an increasing number of social segments beyond younger ones. For instance, sports events organized and/or sponsored by ...

Operations Plan for Wedding Management

Wedding Planning and Management business is part of an Event Management Business. Event Management business is gaining popularity because of the growing culture of getting better experiential service during celebration of any event as well as the willingness to spend on novel experiences. This paper discusses the operational plan of a Wedding Management start up business which pursues the mission of extending a memorable experience to its customers.

OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT STRATEGY

The Operation strategy outlines the plan for starting and developing the business in such a way that it aligns with the mission, vision and core values of the organization. An operations ...

Event Legacy -Contemporary Issues in Event Management

Introduction The event industry has undergone a tremendous transformation where it has shifted from its traditional nature to being embraced by both professionals and entrepreneurs. The increase in mega international events, such as the FIFA world cup and the Olympics, has attracted different stakeholders, including event managers and other parties, to make such occasions a success. The growth of the industry has also been accompanied by an increase in the size and range of the audience. As a result, event managers are often faced with serious challenges, such as the need to leave a legacy and positively impact the ...

INTRODUCTION

The South West (SW) Wedding Awards is the biggest event conducted each year throughout the Plymouth, United Kingdom (UK). The event caters number of wedding photographers, event management firms, wedding beauticians, and every contributor adding the value to an event. Our organization, Bell-Pickle Hospitality, is contracted for providing food and beverage services for the gala event. It is an opportunity for our company to serve the best audience with excellence and establish a goodwill. Our audience in the Plymouth gala event includes the wedding specialists, wedding organizers, and related wedding service providers. Since the purpose of this gala event ...

Tourism, hospitality management sectors are interlinked to each other to some extent and it is argued that Tourism, hospitality management are interrelated and have many cross-relationship to cover the entire sector together. Tourism and hospitality are closely related but not mutually exclusive; as hospitality is the least concerned with providing the needs of tourists. The definitions of hospitality and tourism field falls under “travel and tourism”. It is sensible to study the linked sectors together in detail on strategy and operation level. This research describes and demonstrates the close interaction between the tourism and hospitality; and flexibility of the ...

Business Strategy and Sustainable Development for an Event Management Project

Sustainably managed events have a substantial value that avail many advantages to the society after alleviating and promoting the negative and positive outcomes respectively. To achieve the greatest potential in event management, feasible strategies ought to become broadly adopted and expanded as a widespread practice. Understanding the barriers and the triumph factors that the event organizers should be in acquainted to towards sustainability of the event is the first step in the drive for sustainable event management (Sorokina, 2015). This research will aim at supporting the specified thesis by summing up the plans set for the event and acknowledging ...

MANAGEMENT

Today, the world of sports has an immense number of fans following with subsequent industrial growth. According to Schlesinger (2016), the American population was recorded more than 320 million and Jones (2015) claimed that more than 60% of American population is a diehard fan of sports. Among innumerable sports, the National Basketball Association (NBA) has 17.7 million viewers; the Major League Baseball (MLB) World Series has 14.9 million viewers, and the National Football League (NFL) Super Bowl had record-breaking 108.7 million viewers throughout United States of America (USA; Thompson, 2014). Surprisingly, more than half a million viewers of each ...

Introduction

Total Quality Management practitioners believe in aligning mega trends with available opportunities in their surroundings. These companies are focused on research and analytics for the long term; at least a considerable time in advance. In the case of some companies, it could be some lesser years. This is where these companies have a competitive advantage. The companies which follow the TQM guidelines have their own quality definition of growth. Any kind of economic transformation would mean a step towards growth for them. Research-based data shows that the revenue of companies that have good TQM practices can be increased up ...

The AEG Sustainability Program

Introduction Sustainability should be of great concern to all companies in the events industry. Their business activities have a great impact on the environment. There are many new developments in sustainability, both in theory (including an increasing body of academic literature) and in practice (such as new industry guidelines, accounting frameworks like Triple Bottom Line, and corporate certification schemes) (Sachs, 2015). Corporate management in events companies is, of course, in the best position to make business decisions consistent with the growing awareness of sustainability issues. However, other corporate stakeholders can also become engaged when necessary to assure that their ...

The Montreux Jazz Festival, founded in 1967, has grown to the second largest jazz festival in the world after the Montreal International Jazz Festival of Canada. Over the years, a wide variety of musical forms has been integrated into this festival. Currently, the Montreux Jazz Festival includes almost all forms of music even while jazz remaining a major part of the festival. Today a number of world’s famous musicians perform in the festival, and this festival has currently audience strength of over 200,000. In each year, new additional events are included in the festival so as to ...

Event management entails the application of management in the creation and development of large-scale events (Emmers & Wolff, 2008). The process of coordinating and planning events is usually regarded to as event planning, and it includes a variety of things discussed in the paper (Martin-Flatin, Jakobson, & Lewis, 2007). In regards to the above information, I work as an event manager at an event planning company. The company serves as a one-stop shop that offers everything for its customers such as wedding cakes, fresh flowers, wedding flavors, tables, chairs, draping, lighting, linens among other items. In achieving its objectives, the company has incorporated ...

Section 1: Foundation of the Study

The majority of business information is stored electronically, creating the need for a system of securing this information. As the systems providing computer and internet security becomes more and more complex, security is increasingly compromised. Interlopers and hackers continue to create new and more creative means of gaining entry to information stored on networks, and users are facing an increased number of security attacks. Surprisingly, despite the variety and amount of security risks, security tools designed to counter these are slow to develop appear for business consumption (Garcia-Teodoro et al, 2009). With the introduction of new technological trends, information technology ( ...

The University of Central Florida, Rosen College of Hospitality Management has given me a platform to showcase artistry and creativity in the field of event planning, event designing and decoration. I have made a lot of sacrifices and compromises to achieve today where I am, and still I know I have to go a long way. To get enrolled in college, I have to leave my native land, and it was never an easy decision. However, I believe that I took the right decision for my career. Studying at Rosen College of Hospitality Management has given me the right platform for my ...

History

Maryland Trade Expo was started by the State Department of Business and Economic Development in the year 2002. The exposition aims to market the Maryland’s highly capitalized corporations to both local and international investors through showcasing their competitiveness, operations, and practices. It is three day annual event held in the month of July. The organizers, committee consisting of five members is appointed by the State officer in charge of international trade for a non renewable contract of 3 years. This committee draws the budget and contracts other companies to manage various aspects of the event.

Importance of the exposition

Maryland is home to ...

Increased Competition

Abstract Special events occur for a number of purposes such as celebrations, commemorations, education and promotion purposes. Event planning enables the clients to engage with their audience fully through the creation of design as well as memorable live events as individuals often lack the necessary expertise and time of planning events themselves. The special event planning industry over the last two decades has grown enormously, and the job market in the sector is on the uptick. This industry has played a great role in the human society as it has existed to be of influence in the hospitality and tourism ...

Introduction

Women are an important part of the community. Women also called as mother, sister and life partner acts in the role of family making and binding human beings with their worldly life. It has been seen that several girl child don’t get the opportunity to go to school in underdeveloped and rural areas. This proposal has been developed to help Merlinn Foundation to collect money for organizing campaign to empower women education in rural areas.

Background

Education for women has become one of the important aspects for the development of the community. Women have emerged to take active part ...

Introduction for CMU Competencies Model

The crux of this report is to highlight my leadership competencies through the exploration of theories and models. Also, with the aids of the leadership development plan, I will be better off on preparing myself; a young undergraduate who is entering the workforce in the near future and have an aim to take up leadership role as an event manager in a major company. The Central Michigan University (CMU) had developed a Leadership Competency Model which made up of five aspects, namely the social responsibility, innovation, task management, leading others and self-management. According to the model, leaders may not master all ...

Sales and marketing of events have become a common phenomenon these days. One has to remember that marketing any event is not an easy task. It requires a lot of efforts combined with sales and marketing strategies. Technology has become a great friend for any event marketer today. Many event planners are taking help of various innovative platforms to market their events, conferences and trade-fairs. Some of the best sales and marketing strategies that event managers are adopting today are:

Building Strong Online Presence and Marketing on these platforms

Some of the ways event companies build their online presence are: - Create interactive and a user friendly website: One of the ...

Introduction

Music has no boundaries and is listened by all sections of society, globally. Whether it is in English, German, French, Hindi, Mandarin, Arabic, Urdu, or any other language, music is enjoyed by one and all for its sheer power of attraction. It is not necessary that all audiences like the same kind of music, and it is also not true that all artists are liked by all. Tastes differ, and preferences are many. While some would pledge their hardcore support for the songs sung by Madonna, or a Lady Gaga, they need not necessarily have to agree that they are ...

Introduction

Hake is a financial services provider that offers homebuyers mortgage options which are considered to be cheap. It is a privately owned company managed by its founder and CEO, Alan Hake. The focus of this enterprise is to allow consumers to get access to home loans at a low interest rate. These goals can be achieved with the design, development, and implementation of an efficient computer network with the intention of controlling expense by keeping labor costs low. The company’s system will need to meet tight security guidelines. The security and privacy of the consumers’ personal information will be at the ...

Introduction

Special events become complex when the number of stakeholders attending such meetings increases. In addition, the total number of attendance is in direct relation to the level of complexity and preparedness required of event organizers. From the case study, Doug’s firm is in charge of running the launch of a new chocolate brand named “bubbles”, and needs professional advice on the legal framework of an upcoming event. According to David (2004), it is undeniable that despite excellent and objective event planning and management, certain things can still go wrong. Despite the level of professionalism employed by an event planning ...

Globally, planned events are exciting and diverse. They have unlimited scope and various forms, functions and experience. Events are fundamental components of business, culture and lifestyles because of their meaning and importance to personal lives or the society. Planned events are spatial-temporal occurrence (Van, 2007). Every event is unique in its interaction, setting, management, and attendants. Events are valuable tools of communication because of their exceptional ability to create an atmosphere of belonging to enjoy the experience generated from the interactions emerging from the event. Planned events have different categories such as festival, ceremonies, exhibitions and convention among ...

Introduction

Setting a new business and venture is important from the standpoint of an organization in particular. It is important for the organizations to increase their financial belongings with the help of effective strategies in particular. There are certain factors and tools which ought to have taken into account while setting a new business accordingly and among them, the name of PESLTE analysis, Porter’s Five Forces and SWOT Analysis are some of them . The business which has been chosen for the same analysis is an Event Management Company, which is about to launch in Vancouver, Canada. In the next section, a small ...

Business Plan for an Event Management Company in Vancouver, Canada

Introduction This report has been formulated to reflect upon a business plan of establishing an event management company in Vancouver, Canada. The major aim of this report is to analyze two event and catering companies which are successfully operating in Vancouver, Canada. Once these two companies have been analyzed in significant detail, the prospects of establishing a new event management company in this city would become clear. In order to analyze the competitiveness of the event management industry, the Porter’s Five Forces Model will be used. The Porters five forces framework is an effective tool for industry analysis ...

The internal business function responsible for the collection and reporting of financial information for the reasons of internal business use is referred to as management accounting information. This often relates to the labor used in the production of goods and services for the consumers and the cost of materials. The effectiveness and efficiency of business operations and the means to earn profits is aided by this financial information.

The different types of management accounting information to be used by a travel and business company would include;

Cost allocation reports This is the main function of management accounting and it shows the extent of capital expenditure for each specific each type of economic input and resources and ...

Asking yourself why you are a hospitality management major may give you direction

Introduction Hospitality management major is the one, offering students great variety of possible careers to choose from. For instance, one with hospitality management major can be involved in the work of hotel by taking such positions as hotel housekeeper, project manager, front office manager etc. or manage the work of the restaurant. In terms of hospitality management major opportunities I have always been most excited with the opportunity to launch my own business in order to be able to fully use my creative skills. Thus I have decided to look forward to creating my own event organization. ...

Business events management

Introduction Event management is a discipline involving the use of project management tools and techniques to create manage and bring to success festival and events. The process involve the study of the event to determine the target audience and design a theme that suites them. Operational and logistical technicalities are also developed to ensure the success of the event. Event management gets down to two questions concerning the kind of events to be developed and the planning and management processes that accompany such events. Events can be activities such as celebrations, education meetings, promotions and commemorations. Event planning and management ...

Question 1: Think of sports organizations with which you are familiar. What skills would be necessary to run a program in the follow categories? - Program Management - Event Management - Financial Management - Marketing Management

Answer 1:

The most popular sport happens to be the one I am most familiar with, football. I have in mind a big football team like Manchester United, the activities going on in a club of that magnitude are complex and need professional handling. Individuals tasked with certain tasks must possess some very specific skills in:

Program management

These are the skills employed in coordinating complex ...

The article, provided for analysis, is dedicated to analyzing the links, which exists between employee satisfaction and quality management, aiming at researching into particular human resource management practices, which involve employees’ direct participation. The reason to consider particularly this kind of interrelation lies in the fact that creating quality management requires empowering employees, so that they become themselves interested in customers’ satisfaction and reaching other organization-related goals. In order to explore the links between quality management and employees’ participation, let us, first of all, refer to the core meaning of quality management. Quality management is a philosophy, which is based ...

Introduction to Marketing

Tactics could be regarded as a more defined and elaborated version of company’s strategy which aims to explain how the organization would work to achieve its desired goals and objectives. In simpler words, tactics are the strategies in detail (Anderson, 1982). In this section, the tools that would be used to promote the iTunes in the market are explained and integrated within the strategies.

E-marketing

E-marketing is an emerging trend in the world of business due to which the organization must focus and utilize the emerging trend to its benefit. Since the use of website is at its peak, the ...

Sports events Industry: Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths A SWOT analysis for the sports events industry and considering the organization, products and services, the customers and the market is important to determine the strengths and weaknesses of this industry. Strengths are aspects of an event that make it worth and when managed well could mean the driving factor in making the event a success. In sports events management, success is usually meeting the objectives of the sports event (Ko et al., 2011). A sporting event is usually expensive to organize. There has to be financial resources for the event promotion, venue preparation, and awards for the ...

for the Party Planning/Events Planning Industry for the Party Planning/Events Planning Industry

Rate of Failure

I work in the party planning/events planning industry. Although there is currently no survey data that pertains to the project failure rate in the events planning industry, a study conducted by KPMG in New Zealand showed that of the 100 businesses that were surveyed across various industries, seventy percent of the companies have suffered from at least one project failure within the previous year (ONE News, 2010).

Causes of Failure

Some of the causes of project failure in the events planning industry include the lack of management commitment (Gerson, 2012). ...

Introduction

In one calendar year, we have thousands of events taking place all over the world. These events may include national celebrations, educational (graduations, meeting and conferences), Promotions, including product launches, expos, political rallies and fashion shows, and also commemorations, such as memorials and civic events. These are some of the events that may take place in many places globally. The context of this case is however, large events and especially of international reach such as the World Cup, the recent Olympic Games, The Super Bowl of the US, the NBA finals in the United States, and the 24 ...

According to the ARC Advisory Group, Transportation Management Systems (TMS) can be defined as software solutions that assist in acquisition of transportation services and in implementation of transportation related plans, enhance short-term planning of transportation activities, optimize the use of company’s resources and assets. These systems do not only manage the physical flow of goods, but also assist in measuring performance, enhancing collaboration and managing information and money flows that relate to transportation activities across all transportation modes.

Q1. Why are organizations showing more interest in TMS (Transportation Management Systems) today compared to the past?

The increasing interest in the TMS solutions has been driven by a number of factors. Firstly, the transportation costs are currently ...

A Force Field Diagram

A Multiple Cause Diagram

An Influence Diagram

Soft systems of Change Soft systems are usually related to the characteristics that define human systems, and are associated with open relationships that sustain through time. In case, if there is any change required in these relationships after a period of time the soft systems are neatly driven and updated in order to incorporate those changes. It is important to understand that any system that depends on human efforts is a direct result of the environment within which it is operating and the conditions of stability. There are many factors which may ultimately ...